Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 584 The Truth of History

"I seem to have read from somewhere that the failure of the Tang Dynasty army was due to the rebellion of the Geluolu people." Just after Liang En told the archaeological content about that war, Fan Meng said suddenly.

"And after that war ended, the Geluolu people occupied the Talas people and began to expand, so from the perspective of pure beneficiaries, these people are indeed suspicious."

"It is indeed suspicious, but in fact their expansion is more like the reason why the Tang Dynasty army and the Arab army were both defeated after that war and lost their core mobile forces, so that they were able to fill the gap between the two great powers."

After hearing what Fan Meng said, Liang En continued to search the ground carefully and said, "As for the judgment, it's hard to say, after all, only "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" recorded this point.

After the war, the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Ge Luolu people did not look like an enemy, at least judging from the short-term contact between the two parties, it did not look like a rebellion on the battlefield before. "

"You're right, but it's a pity that the history of both sides is too crude." Fan Meng shook his head regretfully and said, "It's impossible to make an accurate judgment based on the information we have now. "

"You are right, and this is one of the most important meanings of archaeology." Liang En said while probing the ground, "The history that humans can record is a very small part of the real history. , and those gaps in the historical record require archeology to fill in."

I have to say that the soldiers of the Tang army who hid these things back then were smart enough. In order to preserve the remains of the robes, he built a secret room behind and put in a lot of wealth he found to attract the attention of potential latecomers. .

Now it seems that his plan should have been successful, no matter whether it was the greedy Tsarist Russian officer back then, the subsequent batches of treasure hunters have not found the real thing hidden by this person.

Of course, this is also related to the unobtrusiveness of these urns.For the vast majority of people, the treasures in their eyes are gold, silver or gems, not urns.

So most of them go to try their luck in the caves where gold has been dug out before, instead of wasting time in this place where you know there is no gold in it.

What Liang En is doing now is to conduct a large-scale search of this cave, because he just discovered that the stone slab seems to be cut from a rectangular stone slab.

Considering that there was no such convenient stone tablet nearby, Liang En felt that there was probably another important stone tablet recording other contents in this place.Sure enough, after ten minutes, Liang En found his target.

Different from the first slate, the second slate recorded some vernacular words, it was Liu Shenwei's memoirs about that war, although there were only a few hundred crooked words engraved on it, but it restored the story of Taros. battlefield.

As a junior officer, Liu Shenwei stated in this record that after General Gao Xianzhi led everyone here, he first divided his troops to monitor the Arabs in Talas City, and then the main force moved westward to fight for preemptive strikes.

As a result, when they crossed the Taros River, they ran into the main force of the Arabs. After a simple confrontation between the two sides for about half a day, they attacked each other almost simultaneously and started a fierce battle.

At that time, the main force of the Anxi Protectorate in the middle of the front fought very well, even forcing the Arabs to retreat steadily, but the problem was that the Ge Luolu people deployed on the flanks did not block the Arab cavalry.

You must know that nomadic people like the Geluolu people are closer to mercenaries in warfare. It is okay to fight with the wind, but once you want to gnaw hard bones, you will always subconsciously save yourself first.

In this way, the Tang army whose flanks were exposed to the Arab soldiers was finally defeated because they couldn't hold on. Fortunately, Gao Xianzhi was able to maintain the core force, so thousands of people were able to fight and retreat, and returned to the Anxi Governor's Mansion.

At the same time, the detached army, including the siege and outlying cover forces, began to retreat gradually, but most of them were routed by the Arabs.

Liu Shenwei himself was a member of the scout unit sent to intercept the battlefield before the battle, but he was separated from the main force in the dark night after the defeat.

Fortunately, because he was good at acting alone, he was not captured or killed by the Arabs who cleaned the battlefield afterwards, but persisted until the Arabs withdrew.

Afterwards, he decided to stay here, picked up his ancestral blacksmithing skills and opened a blacksmith shop in the city of Talas, which was controlled by the Geluolu people, and then married a wife and had children to take root here.

As a nomadic people, the Geluolu people are not very good at managing cities, but there is no doubt that there is a huge demand for iron, so they will pay attention to blacksmiths.

Although Liu Shenwei himself is a Tang native, the trade between the Tang Dynasty and Arabia resumed shortly after the Talas War, so it is not surprising that a Tang blacksmith is here.

Of course, those local Geluolu people may not know that he is a remnant of the Anxi Army, but the value of a blacksmith is enough for them to ignore these things.

The reason why Liu Shenwei chose to stay here instead of returning to his hometown is because he came to Anxi as a recruiter and had almost nothing in his hometown, and there was not much to miss.

On the other hand, he was deeply stimulated by the war that took one of his eyes, so he hoped to stay here to collect the remains of Paoze and find a chance to send them home.

It is a pity that when he was ready for everything, the Anshi Rebellion broke out. With the main force of the Anxi Army returning to the east and the protracted civil war, the Longyou area was occupied by the rising Tubo people.At the same time, the Anshi Rebellion also severely damaged the overall situation of the Tang Dynasty.

Under these two unfavorable factors, the crucial Silk Road was interrupted, and Liu Shenwei never waited for the caravan from the Tang Dynasty.

In desperation, he could only hide the ashes of Paozhe in the cave, and then spent a lot of time making a cave and putting the property found on the battlefield in the Buddha statue.

This is not only to pray for the robes who died in battle, but also to attract the attention of possible bandits and keep the remains of those victims.

Now it seems that everything he did was very valuable. At least the Tsarist Russian officer did not find and destroy these columbariums, but both the murals and Buddha statues were looted.

"This should be the most important batch of first-hand information among the existing information about Talas." After reading the records on the stone tablet, Liang En sighed.

"Thanks to what this Tang Dynasty warrior did to Pao Ze, although we still don't know a lot of information, at least a lot of important mysteries have been solved.

"Then what should we do next?" Fan Meng, who had always considered himself a Chinese, asked after a few seconds of silence. "Still—or contact the local archaeological department?"

"Let me make a phone call first." Looking at the situation in front of him, Liang En sighed and said. "I got a call last time when I returned something back in the United States. It's best to contact us first about what we're going to do next."

(End of this chapter)